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Led Hacks |
 | How to: Get Free Electronic Parts for your Projects
Don't you hate it when you're working on your next project and realize you're short a resistor or capacitor? You have two choices: Buy online, pay for shipping, and wait a week or go to your local Radio Shack and pay ridiculous prices to... |
 | DIY Fiber Optic Fabric using RGB LEDs
By weaving fiber optic strands as if they were yarn, this team of DIYers created a fiber optic "fabric" of sorts which features a few dozen RGB LEDs and reacts to the outside world via Twitter. Currently, they're raising funds to launch a company... |
 | DIY Iron Man Repulsing Beam
While this Iron Man Repulsing Beam may not pack the power of the real arc-generator-powered awesomeness, it does pack quite a punch with a 330 Watt LED array capable of creating blinding flashes of ultra bright white light. Using a Xenon tube... |
 | Giant LED Matrix Controlled via the Web
What do you get when you combine five LED enthusiats, a free weekend, an Arduino and hundreds of LEDs? The LED wall, which is a massive pegboard (size - 53" x 31") fitted with a matrix of 350 LEDs. The matrix of LEDs can be controlled by... |
 | Build Your Own Multi-Touch Surface
We've covered a fair amount of multitouch projects by now, and here's another great method of building your own. It's actually far more simple than you'd think as we showed in our 5 minute, dirt cheap multitouch example a few years back. Far... |
 | Add Internet to your Arduino (for half the price!)
Imagine being able to control your Arduino projects from anywhere... Yes, this is possible by simply adding an ethernet shield to your Arduino, but you'd have to sacrifice the programming board. Instead of sacrificing the entire Arduino, just... |
 | Patriotic USB Powered American Flag
Happy 4th of July from HacknMod! Here's a quick, simple project for your 4th of July celebration: a computer playing the anthem along with a flying American flag illuminated and powered via USB. The setup is simple and easy to put together. The... |
 | RGB LEDs Syncronized to Keyboard Music
This hack uses MIDI notes from a keyboard to illuminate the keys using RGB LEDs. 88 separate RGB nodes are controlled via a converter box which transforms the digital notes played on the keyboard to make the RGB Nodes flash to the music. The... |
 | Superb 256 LED Graduation Cap
Don't be one of the thousands of "regular" students at graduation! Put hundreds of LEDs on your graduation cap and stream messages across it! All the cool kids are doing it, afterall. The grad in the video above setup a matrix of 16x16 white... |
 | Fascinating Mechanical Iris Steampunk Projects
A mechanical iris is a radially opening aperture which allows light to pass through. We have seen some downright superb steampunk projects and these two examples further demonstrate the beauty of simple mechanics. I've decided I want to install... |
